In case you are wondering what is the thought process behind how someone winds up spending close to a 1000 SGD on just upgrades to a home network, wonder no more! “Ok. Clearly having a WiFi network that’s 2.4 GHz just isn’t working any more” “Since the Routerboard device I’m …

WordPress is notorious for buckling if a site sees a sudden spike in traffic (also known as the Digg Effect, slashdotted, fireballed etc. etc.). As a result, a number of plugins have emerged to replace the default “render-on-every-access” WordPress model with serving static files from disk (ala Drupal or Joomla). …

As if not updating my blog for months at time wasn’t enough, I also maintain a wiki that gets even less attention 🙁 The software powering the wiki is Dokuwiki – a fantastic wiki software that’s very feature-rich (thanks to a plugin architecture) but very lightweight (everything is maintained in …

There are plenty of arguments for and against Security Through Obscurity – I’m of the opinion that while the benefit for doing it might be slim, actually implementing it doesn’t cause any problems, so why not? Moving On! The fastest way to upgrade the PHP version on Debian/Lenny “stable” without …

Most installation guides for GitWeb assume that it will be hosted by a single web-server process (either Nginx or Apache). This article will show how to host GitWeb with Nginx acting as a front-end for Apache. Assumptions The Server OS is Debian/Lenny “stable” Nginx is setup to listen for incoming …

Overview The aim of this guide is to walk through the process of getting rTorrent and hellanzb working on a VPS running CentOS5 (64-bit version).1 In the interests of the author’s sanity, It is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with Unix command-line operations, and that the reader knows …

One of the more fully configured VMWare images for Debian on the VMWare Appliance Marketplace is the image provided by Visoracle. While it does work almost flawlessly out of the box, there is one small problem – the Guest OS doesn’t support Mouse grabbing/ungrabbing by default. To fix this, add …

When trying to setup a new Virtual Machine, you could take the tough approach and do it from scratch. Or you could let someone else do the hard work for you and download a pre-built image. For VMWare, the place to do this is the VMWare Applicance Marketplace. This may …

The command-line is and will always be the fastest way to administer a remote Linux installation. But whether it’s running a speed test of the server or monitoring AWStats reports only accessible from the localhost, a GUI interface can often come in handy. The typical recommendation in such cases is …